Recording TV Programs to the HP Personal Media Drive
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When you set the TV recording pathway to your HP Personal Media Drive, Media Center stores the recording buffer data for pausing live TV on your drive. This means that if live TV is playing, you won’t be able to remove the drive safely. To avoid this scenario, change the recording pathway back to your local hard disk drive, and then restart the PC before disconnecting the HP Personal Media Drive.
To record TV programs to the HP Personal Media Drive:
1 Change your recording pathway to your HP Personal Media Drive. See “Changing the TV recording path to the HP Personal Media Drive” on page 28.
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3 Record TV programs to the HP Personal Media Drive.
4 Before disconnecting the drive:
■Make sure there are no scheduled recordings or recordings in progress to avoid losing data.
■Change the recording pathway back to your local hard disk drive. See“Changing the TV recording path to the local hard disk drive” on page 29.
5 Close Media Center.
6 Restart your PC. You must perform this last step or errors can result when recording to your drive.
7 Disconnect your HP Personal Media Drive safely. See“Disconnecting the HP Personal Media Drive Safely” on page 29.
HP recommends that
Changing the TV recording path to the HP Personal Media Drive
you record TV programs directly to your local hard disk drive and then transfer your recorded programs to the HP Personal Media Drive, if desired.
If you decide to change your recording path to record directly to your HP Personal Media Drive, Media Center creates a Recorded TV folder on your drive.
To change the Media Center TV recording path to your HP Personal Media Drive:
1 Assign a drive letter to your HP Personal Media Drive. See “Assigning a Drive Letter to the HP Personal Media Drive” on page 24.
2 Open Media Center.
3 Select Settings, TV, Recorder, and then Recorder storage.
